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Blackbird saga better than TV

Who needs TV soap operas when you have wildlife in the garden?

I have been struck by the wide proliferation of cowslips – it strikes me this is a bumper year for this spring flower.

The brimstone butterfly is typically the first butterfly of the year to emerge and widely regarded as the ‘harbinger of spring.’

Although there was something of the Pepé Le Pews about the animal, I was sure what we had seen was a polecat.

Imbolc is a pagan festival held to mark the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.

There has been a lot of rain; there is standing water wherever you look; it has been a tad damp underfoot.

Is it possible to ‘tread air’? If it is, then the kestrel has it down to an art.

Each time the floodwaters arrive on the meadows, it is like a world transformed.

Very rarely does flora make the headlines but the felling of a tree in Northumberland has been the main topic of conversation across the land.

This month, my wanderings have taken me up and down the Valley Trail.